Polymorphic relationships?

I´ll make a relationship between “notificaciones” and “users” as
“origen” and “destinatarios” respectively.At the moment i´m working
with the “origen” relationship with bad results…Rails accepts the
Notificacion.origen = User asignement, but don´t stores nothing in the
database.

You can see…

#I get the Notificacion with no origen

n =Notificacion.last
=> #<Notificacion id: 1, evento_id: 1, origen: nil, correo: nil,
created_at: “2009-10-20 07:44:53”, updated_at: “2009-10-20 08:17:10”>

#I review that no origen is set

n.origen
=> nil

#le asigno el primer usuario como origen, parece que le gusta
#I make the relation…seems that Rails like that…

n.origen = User.first
=> #<User id: 5, login: “ernesto”, email: “ernesto.suarez AT
mydomain”, crypted_password: “64834e29e801af32958a2f6be5852f2b78bbe”,
salt: “8f2c260522af24da5472fef1eec29e7cb6af1”, created_at: “2009-06-02
16:19:04”, updated_at: “2009-09-24 07:34:19”, remember_token:
“269b74d1b30efea0cdfd3007916d6c5ffe17”, remember_token_expires_at:
“2009-10-08 07:34:19”, activation_code: nil, activated_at: “2009-06-02
16:20:26”, state: “active”, deleted_at: nil, photo_file_name:
“hax.jpg”, photo_content_type: “image/jpeg”, photo_file_size: 35458,
nombre: “Jose Ernesto”, trafico_id: 1>

#consulto el atributo y me devuelve un User…parece que todo marcha
#I query the attribute and get the spected response

n.origen
=> #<User id: 5, login: “ernesto”, email: “ernesto.suarez AT
mydomain”, crypted_password: “64834e29e801af32958a2f6be5852f2b78bbe”,
salt: “8f2c260522af24da5472fef1eec29e7cb6af1”, created_at: “2009-06-02
16:19:04”, updated_at: “2009-09-24 07:34:19”, remember_token:
“269b74d1b30efea0cdfd3007916d6c5ffe17”, remember_token_expires_at:
“2009-10-08 07:34:19”, activation_code: nil, activated_at: “2009-06-02
16:20:26”, state: “active”, deleted_at: nil, photo_file_name:
“hax.jpg”, photo_content_type: “image/jpeg”, photo_file_size: 35458,
nombre: “Jose Ernesto”, trafico_id: 1>

#I query the register but…surprise! Origen is null!

n
=> #<Notificacion id: 1, evento_id: 1, origen: nil, correo: nil,
created_at: “2009-10-20 07:44:53”, updated_at: “2009-10-20 08:17:10”>

#Save the register, seems that Rails like that too…

n.save
=> true

#but i get the same result…

n.origen
=> #<User id: 5, login: “ernesto”, email: “ernesto.suarez AT
mydomain”, crypted_password: “64834e29e801af32958a2f6be5852f2b78bbe”,
salt: “8f2c260522af24da5472fef1eec29e7cb6af1”, created_at: “2009-06-02
16:19:04”, updated_at: “2009-09-24 07:34:19”, remember_token:
“269b74d1b30efea0cdfd3007916d6c5ffe17”, remember_token_expires_at:
“2009-10-08 07:34:19”, activation_code: nil, activated_at: “2009-06-02
16:20:26”, state: “active”, deleted_at: nil, photo_file_name:
“hax.jpg”, photo_content_type: “image/jpeg”, photo_file_size: 35458,
nombre: “Jose Ernesto”, trafico_id: 1>

n
=> #<Notificacion id: 1, evento_id: 1, origen: nil, correo: nil,
created_at: “2009-10-20 07:44:53”, updated_at: “2009-10-20 09:37:09”>

I reading about polymorphic relationships but i think that this isn´t
necesary… or maybe?Rails says: “ArgumentError: Unknown key(s):
polymorphic” when I try to use them.

Any suggestions?

These are my relationships:

class Notificacion < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :evento
belongs_to :origen, :class_name => ‘User’
has_many :destinatarios,:through => :destinatarios,:source => ‘User’

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :notificaciones,:class_name => ‘Notificacion’,:as =>
‘origen’
has_many :notificaciones,:as => ‘destinatario’, :through
=> :destinatarios

On Oct 20, 6:02 am, Jose Ernesto S. [email protected]
wrote:

=> #<Notificacion id: 1, evento_id: 1, origen: nil, correo: nil,
created_at: “2009-10-20 07:44:53”, updated_at: “2009-10-20 08:17:10”>

You’ve got a field named wrong here; if you want Notificacion to
belongs_to User, you’ll need to name the foreign key origen_id; I’d
guess that the various attribute setters are running headlong into
each other causing the behavior you’ve described.

–Matt J.

On 21 oct, 03:24, Matt J. [email protected] wrote:

–Matt J.
Thanks Matt… it´s exactly that was happened! Now it runs correctly.